I don't know if it was first but
'The Taste Of The Danforth'--the blow-out street festival in our neighbourhood that
draws over 1,000,000 people over a weekend--is the envy of other areas
of the City. This year we visited the Chinese Food Festival in
China Town 2 (On Spadina, which used to be the Jewish
neighbourhood. Not to be confused with China Town 1 which is
behind City
Hall or 3 which is at Broadview and Gerrard in Riverdale--which is
Vietnamese actually--or 4 which is in Markam...oh, nevermind.).
Like 'The Taste' they had food stalls and music and part of Spadina
blocked off. They have a way to go to match the Danforth
closing--which should be up on the site shortly.

Then Cheryl and I were abandoned as
we bicycled down to the Dragon Boat Races by Ontario Place. On the way we noted a
couple of things. First there was this post that agrees with our
observations around the house of the place of cats in the world.

Then we happened to pass the beer festival at Old Fort York. I
don't know about you, but I find something sad about the fact that they
use the oldest structure in Toronto for this.

Of course, where
folks
drink a lot of beer...

Then, we made it down to the dragon
boat races at Ontario Place--which was appropriately decorated.

On
the way home, we went through the 'experiment' at Harbourfront where
traffic in one direction was blocked and a bicycle lane
installed. It would be nice if this was permanent as this area is
in the middle of a cross-Toronto bike path and is usually a very
dangerous area. On this path they created a...what...an Arc de
Triomphe for Bikes?